The court dismissed a putative class action filed under the Class Action Fairness Act on its own initiative, ruling that minimal diversity was missing because both the named plaintiff and the defendant were California citizens, and the complaint’s bare conclusion that more than $5 million was
After the defendant’s counsel ultimately confirmed that the company had received the complaint on August 1, 2025, the court ruled the September 25, 2025 notice of removal was filed weeks past the 30-day deadline and remanded the case to state court, declining to award sanctions because there w
In a Section 1983 wrongful-death action brought by the parents of a man fatally shot by San Diego police officers — including allegations that officers continued to fire shots into the decedent’s body after he was already incapacitated — the court granted in part and denied in part the city
After defendants ignored a court order to pay an $11,400 attorney-fee award, the magistrate judge certified facts to the district judge supporting civil contempt and recommended a coercive per-diem fine, but recommended denying the plaintiff’s request for additional fees on the contempt motion
After defendants in a private-jet brokerage dispute substantially failed to comply with a court order requiring document production and on-site electronic-storage inspection, the magistrate judge recommended civil contempt and coercive per-diem fines, but declined to recommend the harsher remedies o
In a personal-injury suit by a consumer who lacerated her hand when a Mumm Napa Valley sparkling wine bottle exploded after she used a corkscrew to remove a stuck cork, the court granted summary judgment on the design-defect and negligent-storage claims but allowed the failure-to-warn claims to proc
The court conditionally certified a federal Fair Labor Standards Act collective action by City of San Diego firefighters who claim the City miscalculated their overtime by leaving a $500 paramedic-certification bonus out of their regular rate of pay, and approved a joint notification plan with adjus
The court dismissed without prejudice an immigration habeas petition that had been signed by the detainee’s long-term partner as ‘next friend,’ ruling that even if the partner had a basis for next-friend standing under Whitmore v. Arkansas, she could not represent the detainee whil
The court issued a limited stay of a federal misclassification class action against Assurance IQ and Prudential pending a preliminary settlement approval ruling in an earlier-filed and substantially similar state-court class action whose proposed class includes the federal plaintiff.
After previously certifying a class of California bus driver/operator employees of Transdev for wage-and-hour claims, the court reversed course and decertified the class in light of multiple overlapping earlier-filed state-court class actions, then stayed the case to allow those proceedings to advan